The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valleys of the HimalayaW. Blackwood and Sons, 1875 - 475 էջ |
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... rise , we should probably see an English steamboat , with Colonel Gordon , or one of his officers , on board , moving over the waters of Central Africa . For the change in the relations of one country with another , which has been ...
... rise , we should probably see an English steamboat , with Colonel Gordon , or one of his officers , on board , moving over the waters of Central Africa . For the change in the relations of one country with another , which has been ...
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... rise high up on their respective table- lands ; some branches of the Godaveri rise close to the sources of the Narbada , just as the Indus and the Brahmaputra have their origin somewhere about Lake Manasarowar ; and yet the former ...
... rise high up on their respective table- lands ; some branches of the Godaveri rise close to the sources of the Narbada , just as the Indus and the Brahmaputra have their origin somewhere about Lake Manasarowar ; and yet the former ...
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... rise quite so close together as do the three northern rivers from the lofty and inaccessible Tibetan Kailas , but still there is a great similarity in their relative positions ; and it is only when we think of the Sahyadri and Himálaya ...
... rise quite so close together as do the three northern rivers from the lofty and inaccessible Tibetan Kailas , but still there is a great similarity in their relative positions ; and it is only when we think of the Sahyadri and Himálaya ...
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... rising 850 feet above the plain , and 2300 feet above the sea ; and Khandwa itself , which has been built with the stones from an old Jain town , is important now as a place where the whole traffic of Central India to Bombay meets , and ...
... rising 850 feet above the plain , and 2300 feet above the sea ; and Khandwa itself , which has been built with the stones from an old Jain town , is important now as a place where the whole traffic of Central India to Bombay meets , and ...
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... rise above it are from 80 to 120 feet high , and are composed of adolomite and magnesian limestone . Such , briefly stated , are the constituents of the scene , but they are insufficient to explain its weird charm . I went up between ...
... rise above it are from 80 to 120 feet high , and are composed of adolomite and magnesian limestone . Such , briefly stated , are the constituents of the scene , but they are insufficient to explain its weird charm . I went up between ...
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The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the ... Andrew Wilson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1875 |
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